Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-05-21
EASTERN AND FORE1GN NEWS.


Experimental borings for gas are being
made in Boston.
The fund for the Beech statue in Brooklyn
now foots up $4,000.
Baldwin's Los Angeles captured the Run
nymede stake at Louisville.
A Judge in Decatur, ILL.,, fined his own son
s. for being drunk and IS for an assault.
The Standard Oil Company has already
begun to gobble up the Indiana gas wells.
Germany rigidly enforces law prohibiting
the use of tobacco by any one under eighteen.
The Fltchburg Company is to try the ex.
pertinent Of lighting the Hoosac tunnel by
electricity.
Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas lands
cover fully 10, 900 acres, located in three diff
| feIent counties.
More than 200 of the worst saloons in
Chicago have been closed since the new
Mayor went into Office.
A sheet of tin, the first ever produced in
the United States, was manufactured near
Youngstown, Ohio, last week.
President Fitzgerald, of the Irish National
League OF America, has sent an invitation
to Gladstone TO come to America.
The craze for orchids continues in Eng
land. A single plant was lately sold for
ST. 100, and several others brought $500
apiece.
pier bridge across the Hudson river, and is
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it is going'to do aboutit.
There is French Tichborne case on the
tapis. A property estimated at $500, 900 is
claimed by the son of man who has been
missing for thirty. five years.
The opinion seems to be general in the
South that the prohibition agitation there is
likely to continue long enough to disturb the
political organizations seriously.
1t is reported that quarry of the famous
''giallo antico," or yellow marble, used so
much by the ancient Romans, has been dis
covered near St. Genevieve, Mo.
A young Brooklyn boy has been recently
sentenced six months to the Penitentiary for
having thrown a cat at his mother. Yet
English law is sometimes considered severe.
Major Ben. Perley Poore, the veteran news
paper correspondent, was Frustrated by ILL
ness while at work in his committee room at
Washington this week. His condition Is
serious.
Advanced education in India is producing
curious effect on marriage in Bengal. The
monetary demands of the bridegroom in
crease in proportion to the success he achieves
at the university.
The widow of truckman who was struck
by train while he was working in the Penn
sylvania Railroad yards at Newark, N. J.,
some months ago, has secured a judgment
Of $40, 900 against the company.
A rattlesnake farm is an Illinois novelty.
The snakes, which are the only crop of a
field of forty acres, are sold to showmen and
to Philadelphia firm which uses their oil
for making cure for rheumatism.
Miss Dauvray, the California actress, has
just purchased for $500 silver vase Of elias.
sic shape and intricate design, known as a
GrecIan loving cup, which she will present
to the baseball club winning the penant in
1887.
The Hungarians in the Pennsylvania coke
district are leaving for their native land.
They say that the strike will last FIVE or six
months, and that they can live more cheaply
during that time by going to their own
country and returning.
The steel armor-plated turret ship Sanspar.
Gil Just launched at Blackwell, is the largest
ironclad ever launched in England. She is
to carry two Ioo-ton guns besides a power
full subsidiary armament, and will be capa-
BILE of speed of seventeen knots.
Assistant Secretary Maynard has decided
it violation of the law against importing
labor under contract to hire persons residing
in Drummondville, Canada, to work in this
country, and who cross the suspension bridge
morning and night going to or returning from
their work.
General and growing discomfort is report
ed throughout the island Of Cuba, caused by
the expressions and tax extortions of Spain.
Measures of relief are demanded of the
Spanish Government, and there is growing
desire for more intimate trade and political
relations with the United States.
Auguste Gerard de Melcy, husband of the
famous singer, Giulia Grisi, aged seventy
one years, was sentenced at Paris this week
to one years. imprisonment at hard labor for
an attempt to extort $4,000 from Nine.
Adolphe Gerard de Melcy, his sister-n law,
by means of forged document, alleged to
be a note from his dead brother Adolphe.
An Indian magnate, the Mahalajah Of Jad-
pore, lost six boxes of jewels in the sinking
Of the steamship Tasmania, off the Corsican
Coast last month, and he demands $500, 900
from the steamship company as indemnity.
The jewels were left with the Captain, who
having saved his passengers went down with
his ship.